Introduction: Latinx strangers revisited: from othering to effecting social change / Esther Álvarez López and Andrea Fernández-García -- Transforming empathy into extratextual action: the Latina writer as stranger and mediator in García McCall's All the stars denied / Vanessa de Veritch Woodside -- Hospitality and borders in Oscar Cásares Where we come from / Ana Manzanas -- Beyond the wall: Latinx strangers and cosmopolitanism in Luis Alberto Urrea's The house of broken angels / Macarena García-Avello / Inhabiting Nepantla: the stranger in contemporary Chicana fiction / Norma E. Cantú -- The cosmopolitanism of Latinx natality in Jennine Capó Crucet's Make your home among strangers and My time among the whites: notes from an unfinished education / Michael Grafals -- Strangers in the city: cosmopolitan strangers and transnational urbanism in the literary imagination ov Valeria Luiselli / Alejandro Ramírez -- Hostipitality and solidarity in Ivannia Villalobos-Vindas' Casa de tierra ajena / Ewa Antoszek -- Humanizing the wall: cosmopolitan artistic interventions on the US-Mexico border / Ma̳ Jesús Castro Dopacio.
Summary:
"This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from contemporary novels through essays to film and transborder art activism. The focus on this abject figure is two-fold: first, to explore its potential to expose the processes of othering to which Latinxs are subjected; and second, to foreground its epistemic response to neocolonial structures and beliefs. Thus, this book draws on relevant sociological literature on the stranger to expose the political and social processes behind the recognition of Latinxs as 'out of place.' On the other hand, and most importantly, this volume follows the path of neo-cosmopolitan approaches to bring to the fore processes of interrelatedness, interaction, and conviviality that run counter to criminalizing discourses around Latinxs. Through an engagement with these theoretical tenets, the goal of this book is to showcase the role of the Latinx stranger as a cosmopolitan mediator that transforms walls into bridges"-- Provided by publisher.
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